"Gloriously affirming the Salzburg Festival's long-standing reputation as a supreme musical event, this concert honors one of its founding fathers, Richard Strauss. Renee Fleming, Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra unite for a program of song, opera and tone poem, genres central to the composer's extraordinarily fruitful career"--Container.

A program of melodies inspired by women, composed for women or whose poetic texts have been the foundation for sublime pages of music. This recital has no unity of language, period or style, but simply a desire to explore pages of chamber music that create atmospheres conductive to dreaming, traveling and forgetting.